12 Top nonfiction books like Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox

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Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

By: Claire Wilcox

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An expert and intimate exploration of a life in clothes: their memories and stories, enchantments a…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Night Watch

By: Sarah Waters

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN . Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, bl… read more

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2. The Jewels of Paradise

By: Donna Leon

3.75

Format: 316 pages,

Donna Leon has won heaps of critical praise and legions of fans for her best-selling mystery series… read more

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3. Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

By: Alice Steinbach

3.50

Format: None pages,

"In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbac… read more

Similar categories in Alice Steinbach's Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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4. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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5. The Templars' Last Secret (Bruno, Chief of Police, #10)

By: Martin Walker

3.38

Format: None pages,

Bruno, the beloved chief of police of the idyllic French town of St. Denis in the Dordogne, is back… read more

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6. Fatal Remedies (Commissario Brunetti, #8)

By: Donna Leon

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Commissario Guido… read more

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7. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cumming's Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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8. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker

4.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more

Similar categories in Bianca Bosker's Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."

-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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9. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By: Clare Hunter

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more

Similar categories in Clare Hunter's Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • art
  • crafts
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • audiobook
"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"

-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

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10. The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch

By: Melinda Taub

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sparkling, witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesom… read more

Similar categories in Melinda Taub's The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • audiobook
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11. The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more

Similar categories in Katy Hessel's The Story of Art Without Men book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • art
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Winter Dress

By: Lauren Chater

3.89

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Two women separated by centuries but connected by one beautiful silk dress. A captivating novel bas… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Chater's The Winter Dress book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • audiobook
Cover of Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life by Niki Brantmark

13. Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life

By: Niki Brantmark

3.56

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Uncover the secrets of the Swedish philosophy of life called Lagom – meaning ‘just enough’. At its … read more

Similar categories in Niki Brantmark's Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Experts tout many positive reasons to save money, including being able to afford things like a home, car or holiday, becoming financially independent and being prepared for unforeseen expenses or eme…"

-Niki Brantmark, Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life

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14. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

By: Victoria Finlay

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth –how we make it, use it an… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Finlay's Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • art
  • crafts
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • audiobook
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15. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

By: Kassia St. Clair

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes … read more

Similar categories in Kassia St. Clair's The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • art
  • crafts
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • audiobook
"Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials."

-Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

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16. Irresponsible Adult

By: Lucy Dillon

4.01

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

'So good! Warm and funny, and I was rooting for Robyn from the very first page' MILLY JOHNSON'Funny… read more

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17. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes

By: Kate Strasdin

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more

Similar categories in Kate Strasdin's The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • audiobook
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18. Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

By: Claire Wilcox

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An expert and intimate exploration of a life in clothes: their memories and stories, enchantments a… read more

Similar categories in Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • art
  • crafts
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • art design
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • audiobook
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19. Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction

By: Lionel Shriver

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A striking collection of essays from the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Should… read more

Similar categories in Lionel Shriver's Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew

By: Kate Teltscher

4.01

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one of the most b… read more

Similar categories in Kate Teltscher's Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew book and Claire Wilcox's Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

  • history
  • nonfiction

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4.19

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4.16

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4.09

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4.17

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Benjamin Myers

4.33

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4.09

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Catherine Hanley

4.20

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